Who Killed Patricia Curran? : How a Judge, Two Clergymen and Various Policemen Conspired to Frame a Vulnerable Man

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He had been found guilty, but insane, with the suspicions shrouding the Currans continuing apace in 2000 when Gordon was cleared of the murder outright, by an appeal judge.

What draws McNamee to real, rather than made-up, stories; why fictionalise events that, by their notoriety, are already imbued with almost fictive elaboration? 'It's the stories themselves, and the characters, that attract me, rather than the form. Both novels deal with corruption, with how individuals and whole communities or families, are corrupted. All the best noir is about families - dysfunction, incest, skeletons in the closet. I think that's why people are still fascinated with Patricia Curran 50 years on: it's unanswered like a lot of family stuff. I often think that, on an unconscious level, the Curran murder is to Northern Ireland what the Kennedy murder was to America - a country's uneasy dream of itself.' I really tried to keep going with it but had to give up. It just reminded me of pulpy historical novels that I used to read as a teenager - Jean Plaidy and the like. Nor could could they see in this immature and confused young man any sign of the disciplined criminal mind who had, a jury had found, committed a most horrific assault on a young woman, and managed to conceal every trace of evidence linking him to the crime.A JESUIT priest from a devoutly Protestant family at the heart of the Northern Ireland establishment has died in South Africa - taking to his grave the last chance of shedding further light on one the north's most notorious murders. She had 37 stab wounds and must have struggled with her murderer, who would have been drenched in blood, yet her belongings were piled neatly several yards from the body. Further conflicting evidence on Mr Hay Gordon's whereabouts later multiplied the contradictions.

For Fagan, she was a “practical young woman”, someone who “just didn’t fit into the conception of the ideal unionist wife. Today, she would be studying engineering or science at university. She’d be a civil engineer”. He helped raise money from Europe to help living condition and was also a visitor in Robben Island while Nelson Mandela was incarcerated.quotehttps://www.bing.com/videos/search? The BBC made two documentaries about the case in 1995. You may already have seen these but here are links to them.